A Guide to the Palace Hotels of India by Cheryl Bentley

By Cheryl Bentley

See India in the course of the eyes of the maharajas, The maharajas now not rule, yet all through India their extraordinary palaces stay to thrill the attention. this present day, many were changed into lodges, frequently nonetheless occupied or even run through the previous royal households. it is a specified, candid advisor to the easiest of them, from the Lalitha Palace in Mysore to the well-known Lake Palace, as soon as domestic to the maharaja of Travancore, and the Sariska Palace on the Sariska Tiger Reserve. so much are in Rajasthan, yet palace lodges are defined in all components of India. the writer has stayed in all of them and he or she information each function of curiosity: costs, the designated historical past and taste of every palace, what the rooms are like, the standard of carrier, even what to work out within the surrounding quarter. in the course of the publication are profiles of the royal proprietors, current and prior, in addition to interviews with numerous of the maharajas and their shut relations. colour photographs and maps throughout.

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